How to separate repositories into directories using git?

Question

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Greetings.
In studying Git, a question arose, on the server, for example, there are 2 directories: the root - production and in the root - test (test directory). It is required, of course, to work with the test (working) directory, but how to correctly initialize the repositories, so that later they can be pulled from the test directory to production?
Initialize in root? It turns out /http/.git , then clone /http/.git or /http/ (what exactly, I don’t understand) to /http/test (how to clone here? I found in one manual

git clone --bare ~/domains/my-site.ru ~/git/my-site.ru.git

but I don’t understand these paths, the first path is the full path to the root, and the second is the full path to the .git folder in the root and the name of the new repository or the path to the /http/test/ folder and the name of the new repository)?

Answer 1

On the server, you should have (in your mind) a bare repository, to which you will checkout into production and test from the deploy and test branches, respectively.